Islamic graveyard Wadi al-salam – located in the holy city of Najaf in Iraq is believed to be the world’s biggest, holding a whopping five million tombs.
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A dramatic drone video shows the epic landscape of sandy colored graves and buildings.
This drone footage was taken by an Iraqi student and described as Wadi al-Salam cemetery.
The cemetery covers an area of nearly 1500 acres and is well known among millions of Muslim pilgrims from across the world who come here pay obsequies to their departed kin and kith each year.
Meanwhile, there is no clear estimate of the number people of who have been laid to rest here over the course of time.
A majority of the five million tombs in the cemetery, houses remains of Shia Muslims, especially those who recently fell prey to war and instabilities plaguing the country.
According to the caretakers of Wadi-al-Salam, the newer graves here are mostly of soldiers, militants and civilians killed in recent upheavals caused in the country the Islamic State.
Legend says that since Imam Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, was buried here 1,300 years ago, Shiites from across the world have revered the cemetery calling it Wadi al-Salam, which means Valley of Peace.
